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INTRODUCTION: Why IJIRE?
Buchanan, Elizabeth Ess, Charles
Buchanan, Elizabeth
Ess, Charles
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This deliberation is perhaps as old as Internet research itself – and has grown rapidly alongside the Internet. Less than ten years after the first set of four World Wide Web servers came online in 1992, the Ethics Working Group was established by the Association of Internet Researchers in 2000, charged with developing ethical guidelines for Internet research. There were multiple factors driving this decision and work: especially within the United States – where, for better and for worse, much of the Internet research of the 1990s originated – researchers in a range of disciplines were encountering a consistent series of difficulties as they submitted their research proposals to their university Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). Such IRBs are mandated by U.S. law to ensure that human subjects research undertaken with federal funds does not violate basic requirements of human subjects protections, as codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, and as described in the seminal Belmont Report. Informed consent, respect for persons, and beneficence are fundamental, grounding elements of human subjects research.
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2008-01
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